The Irish standard., 1887-01-08
THE PARIS POLICE.

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THE PARIS POLICE.
Peculiar Organization and Subdivisions
| !. of Much Over Rated Institution.
| An exaggerated idea exists as to the
wonderful capabilities and marvellous
achievements of the Paris police force.
Considered from the point of view of
numbers and of the amount of money
it swallows up in one year. it certainly
looks a powerful organization. But on
the authority of its chiefs, or rather ex-
chiefs, it is nothing but huge un-
workable machine, surrounded by vex-
atious restrictions and administrative
forma]ities and anomalies. The Paris
police suffers more from attacks, per-
haps, than any other institution in
France Owing to the fact that numer-
Gus murders committed recently have
not been sifted by the police, that body
is suffering from crusade by the Paris
press. The detective department re-
ceives most of the blame, but the whole
system is attacked. NJ. Henri Roche
fort declares that during the last four
years so many murders have been
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gether to discuss the position Of their
profession and TO pass a resolution in
favor of the present Paris detective
system, the Cirque d'Hiver would not
hold them. The detectives, says the
same journalist, search assiduously for
| the legs arms, head and different parts
of the victim, but never follow up the
! assassin.
The police of Paris numbers about
ten thousand men, without counting
the secret police, the gendarmerie or
the Republican Guard, and the annual
budget of the prefecture is more than
81, 1000. 900. The gendarlnerie belongs
to the Minister of the Interior and the
Guard to the Town Council. The di-
visions into which this force is divided
are numerous and complicated. There
are brigades for clubs and gambling
houses, for the theaters, for balls, for
the press. for markets, for the cabmen
at the cab depots and on the streets,
for hotels and lodging houses, FOR the
gardens, for the ''mo.urs,' and various
other brigades, from the corps who.
guard the palace of Che President down
to the brigade who look after the
nurses. The Prefecture OF Police is
divided into four great departments
police administering, police purely
municipal, police political and police
judiciary. The former is employed
with the deliverance of passports,
livrets, permissions to hunt and other
matters indoors. The next service, the
municipal police, contains 1856 men,
and is under the direction of. the Chief,
NJ Caubet, and not the Prefect. They
are subdivided into the gardens tie la
pair (our ordinary policemen), a CEN
trail brigade, the detective department,
the brigades of 'trecberches,' the hotel
and lodging-house service, which in
turn are cut up into more sections.
About $500 men serve on the streets.
They are we'll paid and are on duty
only eight hours a day. In order to
make them discharge this duty faith
fully they have to 81 en- a register at diff
ferent points in their beats at fixed
hours.
One branch of the "brigades de res
cherches'' is occupied in watching
street policemen, reporting irregnlari-
ties, bad conduct and in making inquiry
concerning applicants sor admission
into the force. Another brigade acts
as reporters to the prefecture. They
attend all sort of political meetings and
demonstrations and take stenographic
notes of the speeches. They watch the
creation of political cliques from their
cradle and are said to know more about
the ins and outs of Journalism and the
position OF parties than any one else.
If such a brigade existed in London the
police would not have to go to the
newspaper reporters for evidence re-
garding Trafalgar square gatherings,
but would have their own official re-
porters' present. A department of the
Paris police under the general con-
troller arranges for the posting of Miu-
isterial speeches when necessary and
sees that the books for distribution in
the department are sent out regularly
from jhe national printing office.
The Paris detectives, in addition to
their regular salary and to recon-.
penses for exceptional merit, receive
premiums for each malefactor they
catch. A theft he attempted yio-
lence-brings 20 francs; an ordinary
burglar is worth Is francs, and so on
to the apprehension of a man for play
ing at games of hazard in the streets,
who is put down at francs. These
premiums are the right of the detect
ives by law, and they are paid on the
same principle for serving writs. The
detectives, however, are not rewarded
individually for their vigilance. The
premiums are put together and divided
among the force monthly, the inspect
ors, Of course, getting the largest
share. The detective force contains
800 men, and are under M. Taylor,
who receives a salaay of f48O. We
have already spoken of the difficulties
under which this force labors in carry
ing on its work. Though policemen
are supplied with asaber and revolver,
the detectives have to provide their
weapons Of defense.-PaW Mall Ga
zette.
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